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Hillary Clinton Email Scandal FULL Press Conference: I Used Private Emai For Convenience

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Hillary Clinton Email Scandal FULL Press Conference: I Used Private Emai For Convenience Hillary Clinton says she used private email as 'a matter of convenience' In a press conference, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has explained her decision to route all emails through a personal account housed on a private server, and reiterated a promise to publicly release any work-related messages. "When I got to work as Secretary of State, I opted for convenience to use my personal email account, which was allowed by the State Department, because I thought it would be easier to carry one device for my work and personal email instead of two," she said after a speech at the United Nations. "At the time, this didn't seem like an issue." This, Clinton maintains, was explicitly allowed at the time she took office in 2009, and she says that most messages were still archived on government servers one way or another. "It was my practice to email government officials on their State [Department] and other .gov accounts so that the emails were immediately captured and preserved," even if they weren't available directly through her account. While some officials have used commercial mail services, Clinton's mail was held on a system that she says was initially set up for her husband's office. "It had numerous safeguards, it was on property guarded by the Secret Service, and there were no security breaches," she says. Clinton says that she turned over roughly half the 60,000 emails on her server to the State Department as part of a record-keeping effort two months ago. The other half, she says, were private messages, including wedding and funeral arrangements, "yoga routines, family vacations, the other things you typically find in inboxes." After The New York Times reported the existence of Clinton's private email account earlier this month, Clinton said she would push to make the work-related messages, totaling 55,000 pages, public. But she hasn't elaborated on her choice until now. "I saw it as a matter of convenience, and it was allowed," she says now. Hillary Clinton May Hold Press Conference To Address Email Controversy There’s a chance that Hillary Clinton could address the recent controversy about channeling her emails through a private server any day now. Possible plans of a run for the White House could have hit a snag for the former Secretary of State for her use of a private email account at the State Department. Hillary has come under fire after it was discovered that she was using a private server that was located at her house in New York to funnel emails that are supposed to be part of the department’s historic record. Now, three sources close to Hillary have told Politico that she may be holding a press conference in the next few days to answer any questions that reporters may have about the situation. Hillary: 'Would Have Been Better' to Use Two Email Accounts Likely Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Tuesday it would have been better if she had used a government email account and a separate mobile device as U.S. secretary of state, but said the vast majority of her correspondence went to employees using government addresses. Clinton has come under fire for her use of a private email account for official business when she served as the top U.S. diplomat because of concerns about security and concerns that she shielded important facts about her tenure from the public. "I saw it as a matter of convenience," Clinton told reporters during a press conference at the United Nations in New York in an effort to defuse the controversy over her use of a single mobile device and a private email account. "I now, looking back, think that it might have been smarter to have those two devices from the very beginning." Clinton, the presumed front-runner for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination, said she had provided to the State Department all of her emails that could possibly be work related for archiving purposes. She said she chose not to keep personal emails on topics such as her daughter's wedding. Clinton said that her emails sent to government addresses had been automatically preserved. Clinton tried to head off criticism last week by urging the State Department to quickly review and release her emails. That was not enough to placate Republicans, who have questioned her transparency and ethics, and some Democrats, who are wary that the party's front-runner for the 2016 White House race could be tarnished. Former secretary of State and likely 2016 White House aspirant Hillary Clinton sought to tamp down concerns about her use of private email while leading the State Department during a press conference at the United Nations on Tuesday. While she maintained she had not broken any rules, she also said she would not be turning over the private server housing her correspondence, despite calls for her to release it for an independent review. 2015 video march